"The reason that 'guru' is such a popular……" — William J. Bernstein
"The reason that 'guru' is such a popular word is because 'charlatan' is so hard to spell."
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The man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine…
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If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to…
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Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the…
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There are two kinds of charlatan: the man who is called a charlatan, and the man who really is one.…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured…
— George Eliot
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A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure.
— Hugh Kingsmill
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I have been saying for many years that we are using the word 'guru' only because 'charlatan' is too long…
— Peter Drucker
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A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that…
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Any scientist who can't explain to an eight-year-old what he is doing is a charlatan.
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The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet how…
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Billy Graham is a boring, racist charlatan.
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